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Debian 3.0 DSA 635-1 Moderate Exim Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2005
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Arbitrary code execution vulnerability patched in Exim for Debian systems. Comprehensive overview of the flaw and guidelines for upgrading provided.
Philip Hazel announced a buffer overflow in the host_aton function in exim, the default mail-tranport-agent in Debian, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code via an ille...
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security advisory buffer overflow remote code execution Debian exim package upgrade

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.36-13 of exim and 4.34-10 of exim4.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim and exim4 packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 661 d97ecab579bd3dbaa3e9be00b8b16d85
Size/MD5 checksum: 80195 a02abeefa9d1145ae623ad661aab5f5a
Size/MD5 checksum: 1271057 42d362e40a21bd7ffc298f92c8bd986a

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 872796 a46f5dc95d777366cb492eb57ec8dd9f
Size/MD5 c...

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